We came, we looked, we each curated our own personal collection of favorite Miami Art Week / Art Basel / Art Fair works of art. Each of us was drawn to different locations and to different works. We found connections to the kinds of work we do, or inspirations for new directions, new techniques, new materials, new ideas. One thing is for sure - no one saw it all. Sandra Schulman and Elle Schorr are joining together to share the work that each found most meaningful.
Sandra Schulman is an arts writer, music and film producer. Born in Miami, she was raised in New York and now lives in West Palm Beach, where she is an Arts columnist for WPB Magazine and writes for Palm Beach ArtsPaper. Her work has appeared in Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, Ocean Drive, Country Music Magazine, The New York Daily News, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. She was an entertainment columnist for the South Florida Sun Sentinel for 8 years, and has authored three books on pop culture, including “Spiritual America The Catalog 1983 - 1984", the story about the gallery she co-directed at 5 Rivington Street, NY that first exhibited Richard Prince’s Spiritual America photo along with early work by Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Loise Lawler, Walter Robinson, Sarah Charlesworth, and others.
This December, and through the end of January, Sandra is gallery manager for the largest of the 9 venues for “100 + Degrees In The Shade”, a definitive survey exhibition of South Florida Art curated by Jane Hart, with over 170 participants, which took place in Miami and Broward Counties. The venue she manages is at 3900 N Miami Avenue. Sandra also wrote one of the three texts for the full color, hardcover 220 page book of that exhibition. “Rumble”, a film she consulted on, is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, based on an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian that she co-curated. She will share her experiences about the exhibition space she is managing, as well as other spaces for 100+ in the Shade and other Art Galleries and shows she found most interesting.
Elle Schorr has been exploring the world through a camera all of her adult life and has always been excited by contemporary art, architecture and the power of photography. She is now working to capture the transitory energy of the urban environment and shows her work widely. Her work was chosen in 2009 and 2013 for the “Annual Juried All Florida Exhibition” at the Boca Raton Museum, and in 2015 in the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood Juried Biennial. Work can be seen at ARTHouse 429 in Northwood, and Project Fine Art in Fort Lauderdale.
Elle created and leads the Art Salons at the Armory Art Center. She recently curated “Artists of Art Salon: A Collective Dialogue”, which showed the work of 57 South Florida artists who have given presentations at Art Salons over the past three years. She stays in Miami every year for Art Basel, and this year decided to focus on respected South Florida artists who are showing their work, and the galleries, studios and special exhibition spaces where their work is being shown.
